Gary McGloin

Gary McGloin (1819-16 July 1863) was a member of the Dead Rabbits gang of the Five Points of New York City who later defected to William Cutting's Natives gang. He was killed during the New York draft riots.

Biography
Gary McGloin was born in 1819 in Ireland, and he later immigrated to the United States after the Great Famine struck. He joined Priest Vallon's Dead Rabbits, an immigrant gang of the Catholic Irish in New York City who wanted to defend themselves from William Cutting's Natives and other xenophobic whites. McGloin was loyal to Vallon until his death in February 1846 in a battle against Cutting for control of the Five Points, and he was one of the Dead Rabbits who defected to Cutting's side. He was one of his lieutenants during the 1850s to 1860s, and in 1862 he engaged in a fistfight with Priest's son Amsterdam Vallon at a bar, with Amsterdam beating McGloin. Later, McGloin fought against Vallon at a church when Vallon and his gang entered, with McGloin criticizing them for bringing an African-American (Jimmy Spoils) into the church. McGloin was beaten up, but he returned to fight against Vallon's Dead Rabbits during the New York draft riots. As the US Navy shelled Paradise Square, McGloin tried to flee, but a line of Union soldiers fired a volley of bullets that killed him instantly.